Me too, I just wish the ending wasn't a sellout. I like him better before the change of heart. Even then, that ending scene in the doorway is so iconic that you have to like it.
Also always liked The Quiet Man.
Me too, I just wish the ending wasn't a sellout. I like him better before the change of heart. Even then, that ending scene in the doorway is so iconic that you have to like it.
Also always liked The Quiet Man.
Add the WWII ones
Howard Hawks And John Wayne Made Rio Bravo Out Of Hatred For High Noon - /Film
Howard Hawks and John Wayne took issue with the political messaging of High Noon, and set about to make their own Western to spite it.
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That doorway shot was a tribute to Harry Carey senior. Junior played the character whose fiancé was butchered by the Indians. Junior was a stock character in many JW movies.
The Searchers, Red River, True Grit, The Quiet Man,
They Were Expendable, In Harm's Way and The War Wagon...
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I'll watch anything - and everything(!) - that John Wayne ever filmed.
But I have to admit that "The Quiet Man" is my favorite. [Which was, coincidentally, filmed in the year I was born. And that makes me ancient.
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But I have to admit that "The Quiet Man" is my favorite. [Which was, coincidentally, filmed in the year I was born. And that makes me ancient.
]
"Tall in the Saddle" co-staring Ella Raines. (1944)
I find it hard to believe that was 79 years ago ...
Woody
Yeppers, that is it. Gabby Hayes starred also and was with JW when he was shot at while in the line shack.
79 years ago puts its release 2 years before I was born.
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